Andrea Long Chu and the politics of critical life. The first time you publish a review, once the temporary excitement of the byline wears off, you are forced to confront an age-old question: What’s ...

No one likes criticism. Even those who criticize feel burdened by their perceived "need" to do it. All my critical clients in the past 40 years have been at least intuitively aware that criticism is a ...

Justin Tranter, a 45-year-old musician who has co-written smash hits by Chappell Roan and Justin Bieber, was annoyed. Social media, in Tranter’s view, had been overrun by music listeners (especially ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Kelefa Sanneh, a music critic writing for The New Yorker, about his essay "How Music Criticism Lost Its Edge." Here's an irony of this moment. Some people say the most ...

It has been a tough summer for cultural critics. The Associated Press said it would end its weekly book reviews, citing “a thorough review of AP’s story offerings and what is being most read on our ...

This year’s Pulitzers were dominated by big, well-known and New York-centered names, including Bloomberg CityLab. Wait, CityLab? What’s that? The vertical, which was acquired in 2020 by Bloomberg from ...

Anna Wintour described Lauren Sánchez Bezos as a “great lover of costume and obviously of fashion” when asked about backlash ...

“Anybody that’s criticizing it doesn’t really understand what is happening here," King said while speaking with reporters after the flight Brenton Blanchet is an Associate Editor on PEOPLE's TV team.